It is a view point that is grounded in the theistic idea that there is only one God that is: Omniscience, Omnipotent, Omnipresent, and Immutable. The Holy Bible is considered to be divine inspiration and transcribed by chosen authors of God. It is also considered to be special revelation and is meant to be used as a guide to understand our existence and purpose. It is important to note that the biblical worldview seeks to be objective and also includes scientific study. It is not merely philosophical and may be more accurately termed “biblical paradigm”.
Accordingly, Matthew 26:41 lets us know that “… the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak” (New International Version). The Natural World The natural world is a consequential part of the biblical worldview, which is our origin. Moreover, our origin, per se the natural world, materialized because of God. Likewise, before God, there was nothing; he spoke the words, and everything became substance. In other words, God was and is the inventor, the producer, the creator, the progenitor, the maker, the author, the founder, the mastermind, the father of all creation and deity to all.
Naturalism doesn’t really give us an answer to this. How can we be significant or special if life ends at death on earth? Humanism says we give our own meaning or value to life. Theists believe our purpose is to know God and develop a relationship with Him. Deuteronomy 11:13 and Leviticus 19:18 confirm this truth.
Supporters and Opponents of the Divine Command Theory The principal components of the Divine Command Theory (DCT) are: in first place, the believe that an almighty God responsible for the creation of everything exists and because of this we owe him obedience. Second, the believe that what is wrong or right is determined by God, meaning that what he approves is the right thing and what he disapproves is the wrong thing. What God approves and disapproves can be found in the Bible, specifically in the Ten Commandments, which are clear examples of the things that God wants us to do and the things that he forbids. According to Hoff & Sommers (2010), John Arthur critics various aspects of the DCT, within these critics the most important ones are: in first place, the difficulty of demonstrating that God even exists. Second, he asks the following question, if God created evil and goodness, why can he simply make evil disappear?
Always be prepared to give an answer, to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect.” (1 Peter 3:15) We are God’s crown, and glory of His creation. Above all created things He chose us to bear His image, male and female, so that by our life we might display Him in this world. We are each crafted by God, given uniqueness possessed by no other living beings, and each of us is given uniqueness no other “being” possesses. Inherent dignity and value constitute our identity, because we are from God.
Christian Worldview Christopher G. Irwin Liberty University Christian Worldview A worldview mainly comprises of a person’s collection of many presuppositions, values and convictions from which one totally tries to clearly understand and in addition make sense out of this world and life. It is not only an explanation and world’s interpretation but also the continuous application of it to life. The Christian worldview clearly sees and understands God as the Creator and His celebrated creation (man and the world) majorly by use of God's special revelation, mainly the Holy Scriptures, and through His natural revelation as seen in creation. This is clearly interpreted by all human reason and also reconciled by and evidently with Scripture, mainly to elicit beliefs and behaviors in accordance with God's will. This will eventually bring glory to God from one's mind and life, in the present and in eternity.
God does not leave an empirical bread crumb trail in order to demonstrate His existence. Rather, the only way we can really know God is through the gracious work of the Holy Spirit, who illuminates to us what God has revealed about Himself. It is only by the Spirit that we are able truly to hear the “speech” and “knowledge” poured out by the heavens God created. Only by God’s gracious self-revelation can we understand that all of “nature” is in fact creation. With that being said, Biology classes are taken by many students, which is the study of life and of its many diverse forms.
Now in previous verses God is creating everything in the earth, but the thing that sets the creation of man apart from this, is being made in His image and having His breath breathed into man. The purpose of life has so many different meanings, and they can be found on just about every page of the bible. According to John 17:3 the whole purpose for life on earth is, “that they may know You, the only true God”(John 17:3, NIV). Ecclesiastes 12:13 has an amazing blunt explanation in the purpose of life, “..Fear God and keep his
The classification of religious experiences by William James, Rudolf Otto and Richard Swinburne all support the view that religious experiences have a common core. James claims that religious experiences occur when one surrenders themselves to the divine; their experience is passive, ineffable, noetic and transient. Otto states religious experiences share a common core in the numinous, claiming that religious experiences take place as a result of our interactions with the numinous world. Swinburne also defines religious experience as an interaction with the divine sharing a common core in the theistic God. Again this shows good grasp of the topic – clearly the student has understood that all three thinkers supported a common core.
This the world that God created and we live in to this day. In the natural world, Paul explains in Romans 1:20 “For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities- His eternal power and divine nature-have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.” With the many creations that God has produced, the world should not be presented in an evil way. God gives us chances every day to show what is right in the world and how everything should be treated. God wants us to present ourselves in righteousness rather than in sin. When we receive God and his word, we should receive it with open arms rather than resist it.